Is it okay to hit the database from a custom model binder?

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Published on 2010-04-17T13:00:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 13:03 UTC
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Say I have an object that gets some data from HttpPost and some from the database. I think I want to allow the ModelBinder to go to the database/repository for the that data missing from the post. In practice, is this a good or bad idea?

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